Event Post: Dreamwalker

[hadrielmods]

THE RUNDOWN

Hey, you know who hasn't shown his face in awhile? That silly rascal, Fear! And since it's been a few months since he's stared you all down, he figures that it's time to get back in the game and dish out some truly scary events... namely, he thinks that as long as you guys are having nightmares, he might as well put you in one another's dreams and benefit from it. Double nightmares! But don't worry, the other gods will try to stop him and have your back.

On May 16th, Fear will make a network post, in which he will basically taunt you guys and talk about how he's going to make you experience one another's nightmares. Rude! Luckily, the other gods will see this and intervene, making the event something of a free-for-all.

From May 16th-May 26th, characters will find an immeasurable wave of exhaustion descend upon them at roughly the same time each night- yes, even you weirdos who don't sleep at all! Upon falling asleep, will either be a Host or a Visitor. Hosts will be 'touched' by one of the four gods: Fear, Hope, Rage, or Delight, and have corresponding dreams. Visitors will enter into the dreams of a Host and the two of them will experience the dream together.

Have fun as you traverse one another's deepest nightmares or happiest dreams. Watch out for the angry dreams, and do try to enjoy the hopeful ones.

On May 27th, the gods will declare a stalemate and everyone's sleep schedule and dreams will return to normal.

THE DETAILS

Each character can be a Host or a Visitor as many times as you like, but they can only be one each night, for a total of ten nights. This means you can be a Visitor for seven nights and a Host for three, or a Host for all ten nights, with no visiting. Whichever you like! Visitors may visit multiple dreams per night, while Hosts can have multiple visitors per night. It's up to you guys to decide if you want your characters to be aware of repeating dreams or not.

Likewise, each Host can be touched by a single god as many times as they like, with a rule of one dream per hosting night. Five hosting nights, with five Delight dreams? Go ahead! Seven hosting nights with three Fear dreams and four Rage dreams? Have at it!

As far as the dreams themselves are concerned, here are a few ideas of the types of dreams that each god would influence:

Fear: What are you afraid of? Typical nightmares of monsters chasing you, falling forever, running from something? Worst fears and most terrifying memories are all applicable as well. Dreams of Fear's previous events are also possibilities!
Hope: What do you want? Even if it's not possible- a dead friend or family member to return to you, winning endless riches, or succeeding in a long quest.
Rage: What makes you angry? It could be a dream about someone winning something you wanted more than anything, something completely unfair, or that person whose lights you want to punch out. Hey, maybe it's a dream of Fear's face on a punching bag!
Delight What pleases you? Sunny days, picnics in meadows, your favorite food made exactly how you like it... where will you be happiest? What are your favorite things?

These aren't hard guidelines or anything, either- they're just suggestions, if you're having trouble coming up with something!

As a final note, opting out of the dream event is A-ok! Your character does not have to be affected by the exhaustion waves and/or dreamsharing. You also don't need to have 10 nights worth of threads; both handwaving and opting out on certain nights is just fine! The gods are definitely capable of overlooking a few characters.

THE OVERVIEW

► May 16th: Fear posts to the network and is rudely interrupted by the other gods
► May 16th-26th: Welcome to snoozeville, population: you and that weird guy you met at the store last week.
► May 27th: Finally, a decent night of sleep!

Comments

General Hux

[firstorders]

I’m interested in Hux being both Host and Visitor so let me know which you would be interested in.

Mostly, his own personal dreams are going to be fear driven because of the headspace that he’s in right now. He left home terrified he’s facing execution/disgrace thanks to the loss of Starkiller.

Maketh will be the dubious spectator in one of his Fear driven nightmares about his academy days. There will be TW for implied child abuse and all the horrible stuff a fascist society can do to break a young man’s soul and mind.

I could be up for doing another Fear influenced dream if someone has an idea they want to run past me. He has enough fears and hangups to fill up the entire event chokablock full of bad juju.

He will also be a Rage fueled dream where he strikes down every person whom he thinks he has ever slighted him. coughcoughKyloRencoughcough TW for bloody retribution and other heinous things because yeah he’s got a lot of hate suppressed and this will be a cathartic outlet for him.

I also might like to see him have a Delight driven dream cataloging the culmination of all of his personal aspirations where he manages to depose the Supreme Leader, destroy the New Republic and crown himself the leader of a unified and orderly universe. I can’t see so much in the way of TW here aside from the whole “Bad Guys Win” self-indulgent dreams of being a space tyrant. Not that he thinks of himself as one of course but instead as a ruler who will bring peace and order to a galaxy in chaos.

Please note: I’m not going to be bringing in anything really about Starkiller base mainly because it’s kinda a touchy subject for him. And also keep in mind that Hux has bought waaaaaaaaaay into the party line and so his dreams will have a very First Order and Hux skewed angle. He genuinely thinks what he is doing is for the betterment of the galaxy and it will show up in his dreams.

Hit me up here, via PM to this journal or even on plurk lightofdawn to iron out any details and plotty things.

[mismanagement]

Alrighty, this is going to be interesting. Mechanics first. Would you prefer Maketh be a passive observer, interact with dream!Hux, something in between the two?

Also, let me know if you want Hux to visit any of Maketh's dreams.

[firstorders]

Yessss let's iron out the details. Uhhh I feel like it's kinda unfair for you if Maketh is just relegated to passive observer. How many freaked out reaction tags can you do before it gets repetitive? I figured I'd definitely set up the scene and we could always do a morphing of the two where maybe she watches for a bit and then draws attention to herself somehow which is when she becomes an active participant in this nightmare scenario?

And sure thing! Maybe the next night he gets to tip toe through one of her fun fun Academy days dreams?

[mismanagement]

Good point. Would you prefer her to be the current Maketh, or flash back to her cadet days so they're the same age in the dream, if that makes sense? I have an image in my head of these two bonding as freaked out cadets that would really piss Maketh off when she wakes up, since she's trying really hard to hate everything about Hux.

Turnabout is fair play :D Wanna do one of the dreams I wrote out, or more general academy nastiness? Might be easier if it doesn't involve people he doesn't know. And I do have an idea concerning an exercise in assembling a blaster and the sort of "motivation" an instructor could apply. Liiiiiike, say, shooting the slowest participants with blanks. Or the blaster equivalent of blanks.

[firstorders]

Oooooooo both have some interesting potential. NGL I kinda like cadets hanging out and it does have the added bonus of Hux at least not knowing who she is instantly.

Hmmmn there's a couple of options. I like the idea of him seeing HER backstory. Or we could go pure evil regarding executions it can morph into Hux who'd been a pretty inactive participant up till now holding the gun? Maybe that's just Maketh's dream projection and he can be mildly freaked out watching his doppelganger holding the gun?

[mismanagement]

Let's go with that, then. Any thoughts as to the situation they'd find themselves in?

Hmm. I like the idea of Maketh projecting him as the executioner who ends up shooting her friends - and girlfriend at the time - since that basically sums up her feelings about him right now. Which will inevitably be complicated as she gets to know him as a person and not this faceless extension of the Empire. Which he's not even part of.

[firstorders]

I have horrible headcanon Brendol started up his Commandant's Cadets in the F.O. But Hux wasn't allowed to join because he's too high profile and because his father didn't want to show favoritism. Not that the other cadets believed that so Hux prolly had to put up with more than his fair share of bullies and people trying to take him out either because of jealousy or shenanigans with his father. So maybe he has a nightmare about being hunted by some of his schoolmate bullies and being trapped?

Yeah, I like the idea too. I need to ask if say the visitor would actually be able to share in the emotional impact of the dreamer. Like will Hux actually EXPERIENCE Maketh's horror and agony at watching these people die? I think that could be interesting but lemme come back to this when I have an answer?

[mismanagement]

That....would make a lot of sense. Let's go with that. And then Maketh will have to decide if she ought to help him or join in with the bullying. On one hand - better him than her. But then there's the potential of teaming up, since they're both - I imagine - small at that age, and Maketh was not well liked by her classmates.

That's a good question. I'm really looking forward to it either way!

[firstorders]

Okay sorry I'm so slow getting back to you. It seems to be players choice so if we wanted to do that whole experiencing it through the eye of the beholder thing then we could definitely do it

omg after all this amazing negative CR this is going to be 10x more lawlsome.

NGL after this I dunno if Hux would feel too bad about shooting her girlfriend and buddies. XD

[mismanagement]

No worries! And I think that would be interesting to play around with - both of them being forced, in one way or another, to empathize with each other.

Bwahahhaah yes. I'm having so much fun bouncing these two off each other. Your Hux is amazing, by the way. Very logical, but with an undercurrent of something else that I'm still working out. It's great fun to write against.

Pfft probably not. Maketh has pretty much badmouthed him to everyone she knows.

[firstorders]

Yessss I agree completely. I'll prolly be slower going in the coming week because of work but I'll try and at least bang out a tag or two when I can.

I know! I'm having way too much fun at this. I'm so sorry for Hux, well...mostly sorry. And thank you! I'm really enjoying Maketh and when I get a spare few days I'm going to go watch Rebels just because I've been intrigued by her. Also his secret is a boat load of fucking crazy sauce. That's his secret.

Honestly, him trying to paint himself as the injured party here are you shitting me, Hux? LMAO He just knows he has 1) no backup and 2) No one who seems to know who he is so he can just skate along like he's not a complete crazy fascist asshat.

[mismanagement]

That's fine, work comes first. I happen to have a shitload of free time right now, but I have a feeling that will change fairly soon because GRAD SCHOOL ZOMG.

Nice ^^ I ended up liking Rebels a lot more than I expected to, so I hope you will as well. Pffft. Of course it is. That boy is too buttoned up to be completely sane.

To his credit, it would probably be working if people didn't like Maketh as much as they do. She's....not handling this gracefully. At all. I can't wait for the dream event to tear everything open again because ahahaha academy trauma what. Maketh's probably due for another breakdown at this point.